Protecting Traditional Origins - was Re: [Sca-cooks] Hot off the presses: A new Feudal Gourmet pamphlet!

[Tom Vincent]

It isn't 'French food marketing':  It's the EU's philosophy of protecting products originating from or associated with a particular region.  This covers some cheeses (like Spain's Cabrales and Ireland's Imokilly Regato), beers, breads/pastries, oils, olives, fruits, vegetables, meat products, ciders, mineral waters, spices, even Spanish & Italian saffron (Azafran de La Mancha and Zafferano del'Aquila).  
   
  You can't grow Finnish Lapin Puikula potatoes in India and call them Lapin Puikulas, for example, or bake Nurnberger Lebkuchen biscuits outside of Nurnberg, Germany.
   
  It's a way of protecting traditional origins of foods & produce, so you don't get things like, I don't know, (US equivalents) Wisconsin Cheddar coming from Alabama, Poland Spring water coming from New Mexico, Philly cheesesteaks coming from Reno and Chicago deepdish pizza coming from Boise.
   
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/agriculture/foodqual/quali1_en.htm
   
  Duriel
  

"Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius" <adamantius.magister at verizon.net> wrote:
  
On Mar 31, 2006, at 3:04 AM, lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:

> Forwarded by request
>
> ---------------------
>
> Hot off the presses: A new Feudal Gourmet pamphlet!
>
> Researching a medieval Recipe: Condoignac - a Quince Paste from 
> Paris, 1393-1394.

I'm curious about something here... is the reference to it being from 
Paris based on the fact that there's a recipe for cotignac in Le 
Menagier, or is there some more compelling reason? I ask because 
today, the city of (I think) Tours claims it as their official 
invention, and, French food marketing being what it is, rife with 
statements of identity and "it can't be called this if it doesn't 
come from here", I assume there's some foundation to that claim.

Can one of our candy geeks shed a little light on this?

Adamantius


"S'ils n'ont pas de pain, vous fait-on dire, qu'ils mangent de la 
brioche!" / "If there's no bread to be had, one has to say, let them 
eat cake!"
-- attributed to an unnamed noblewoman by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 
"Confessions", 1782

"Why don't they get new jobs if they're unhappy -- or go on Prozac?"
-- Susan Sheybani, assistant to Bush campaign spokesman Terry 
Holt, 07/29/04


_______________________________________________
Sca-cooks mailing list
Sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
http://www.ansteorra.org/mailman/listinfo/sca-cooks